Here’s how Trudeau united Canadians
At least something good came out of the outgoing prime minister’s term
By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.
rachelmarsden.com Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. © Drew Angerer/Getty Images Another one bites the dust. Before he can get pushed into it. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came back from a rough Christmas break and promptly resigned. During his holiday downtime, he headed over to the westernmost province of British Columbia for some skiing, where he was caught on camera being welcomed by a local, who said as he went over to shake her hand, “Mr. Prime Minister, please get the f**k out of BC. You suck!” A growing chorus of homegrown profanity has followed Trudeau wherever he ends up going. Merely days later, on January 6, he stood in front of the press at his Rideau Cottage residence and announced that he was stepping down, citing the desire to offer Canadians a “real choice.” Like he was sacrificing himself for the greater good of the country. In reality, he was just battering himself up and tossing himself on the barbecue before his own party did – which they were expected to do just two days later at a caucus meeting. During his announcement, Trudeau demonstrated that he’s suffering from an incurable case of woke mind virus. He underscored his commitment to Ukraine, to “truth and reconciliation” with natives, and to climate change. Meanwhile, Canadians of all political stripes and backgrounds are more focused now on how to save their own behinds from impending economic doom, exacerbated by the carbon tax imposed by Trudeau, than they are with the abstract notion that by slitting their fiscal wrists for the planet, they can control its temperature. Immigration has exploded under Trudeau to the point where it’s affecting housing and jobs, while also treating Canadians to a taste of various global conflicts right at home. You used to have to actually go abroad for that, but now you can have it Ubered right to your door. Literally. “Why do so many ‘skilled’ Indian migrants work as drivers in Canada?” someone asked on Quora, for instance. There’s also the ongoing traveling roadshow of gunplay between Khalistani Sikh separatists and their opponents. And the Israel-Palestine protests and counterprotests, one of which saw a participant threaten her opponents with another Holocaust, then asking if they needed clarification on what that was because she’d gladly explain it. Canadians – always polite and helpful. The NATO-backed Ukrainian conflict with Russia also culminated at home in Team Trudeau celebrating an honored Canadian guest during a visit from Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky – who also happened to be a bona fide World War II-era Ukrainian Nazi who had served in Heinrich Himmler’s Waffen-SS. Read more If Trudeau wanted to bring the country together, he’s finally succeeded. Not through any contrived “truth and reconciliation” initiatives, but rather organically by virtue of the fact that Canadians now overwhelmingly agree that he sucks. All but 20 percent of the population, according to the latest polling. If that still seems like a lot, it is. Like, who are these people? It’s worth remembering that there’s a significant chunk of the Canadian electorate that would reflexively vote for the self-styled “natural governing party” of Liberals even if they were lobotomized. Which they might be. After all, when Trudeau marginalized those who opted to pass on the Covid shots, they willingly fell into line and picked fights with friends and family. “When people see that we are in lockdowns or serious public health restrictions right now because of the risk posed to all of us by unvaccinated people, people get angry,” Trudeau said three years ago, blaming the pro-choice for his own government’s draconian diktats. And when Trudeau blamed Russian disinformation for the fact that everyone was laughing at him applauding a Nazi, some Canadians actually listened and complied, with all the power that their remaining functional neurons could muster. But one could also say that these credulous Canadians are victims, too. After all, under Team Trudeau during the Covid fiasco, the military used social media to deploy weapons-grade propaganda honed on the battlefield of Afghanistan to enforce establishment narratives, as the Ottawa Citizen reported in 2021. Then there are Canadians who fear the so-called scary “fascist” (but actually frustratingly centrist) Conservatives more than they do the guy whose party actually blocked bank accounts of honking Covid-era anti-mandate Freedom Convoy Protesters, and actually have to be told in a ruling by a federal judge that he overshot his authority. But in announcing his exit, Trudeau has also joined the many other Western establishment leaders trying to save their shared establishment agenda from voter wrath, particularly of the populist kind, as they seek to purge their national leadership of anyone considered even remotely involved with the mess made. Read more Romania simply cancelled an election when a populist won the first round. Austria has tried (and failed) to form a coalition without the winning populist party. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is impossibly trying to govern the country to the total exclusion from government of the right-wing populist party that won the most votes and the left-wing populists that won the most seats, even after colluding openly with the latter in a desperate attempt to block a right-win parliamentary victory. Trudeau’s gambit now involves suspending the Canadian parliament rather than dissolving it in favor of an immediate election. With parliament prorogued until March 24, it gives the Liberals time to find a new leader and then simply plop him into Trudeau’s role when parliament resumes with a new throne speech and a new direction. Like nothing ever happened. Hardly the “real choice” that Trudeau just said that “Canadians deserve.” That would require an election. Which has to be held sometime before the Fall anyway, but a new Liberal leader might buy the party some time to try clawing back some of that 24-point lead that the Conservatives now enjoy. A lead that could result in a landslide victory and a long odyssey across the political desert for the establishment Liberals who’ve long thought that they own the place. The Western establishment has repeatedly proven that when faced with a democratic reckoning that risks rendering a verdict against their status quo, they’ll pull any and every lever they can in an attempt to prevent it. US President-elect Trump reacted to Trudeau’s announcement by suggesting yet again that Canada merge with the US. No doubt in jest, but the Trudeau-led Canadian establishment trying to subvert democracy by sprinkling glitter on a dumpster fire in a last-ditch effort to cling to power sounds more like a typical justification for the kind of full-blown Western regime change that they love. The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
